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Though Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) has emerged as the largest single party in the National Assembly after the July 25 elections, the party is still short of numbers to form its government on its own.
PTI leader Naeenul Haq told the media last night.
"We have done our homework and he will take oath as Prime Minister before August 14," Haq said.
According to the ECP, the PTI has obtained a general majority – while the PML-N and PPP have won 64 and 43 seats, respectively.
Pakistan's NA – the lower house of Parliament – including a total of 342 members, of which 272 are directly elected. A party can only form the government if it manages to secure 172 seats in total.
Meanwhile, political activities are at full swing and parties are holding open meetings and secret talks to arrange the political chessboard.
Pakistan's two major parties – the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) – are expected to meet a couple of days to the PTI in parliament, the Dawn reported.
The Pakistani electronic media throughout the day is kept under review by the federal government.
The PTI leaders who have won more than one seat to one another. PTI chairman Khan has won five seats and he will have vacate four seats.
Ghulam Sarwar Khan of Taxila has also won two NA seats by defeating the interior minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan and he will also vacate one seat.
Former Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pervez Khattak has won both National Assembly and provincial badembly seats.
If the PTI decides to nominate him again for the office of the chief minister, he will also vacate the NA, which will be reduced to 109.
It was after these calculations that the PTI leadership has become decided upon to reach out to other smaller groups and independents since the party has already declared that it will not join hands with the PPP and the PML-N, the daily said.
The Dawn reported that Former Secretary General of the PTI Jahangir Tareen had established the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) which has won six seats. There are 13 independents who have won the NA seats.
If the PTI obtains support of the GDA, MQM-P, PML-Q and the Awami Muslim League, the number of its seats will become 122 – still 15 short of the required numbers, which is more than the independents who have won the elections.
Other parties that will be represented in the NA are the Balochistan National Party-Mengal (BNP-M) with three members, and Jamhoori Watan Party, Awami National Party and Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaniyat with one seat each.
The PPP and the PML-N have also rejected the elections results, sources in the two parties told Dawn that they would not support the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) 's call for boycotting the oath-taking session of the National Assembly.
"We have decided to play the role of an aggressive opposition in parliament," said a senior PML-N leader who had participated in the MMA-convened multiparty conference in Islamabad on Friday.
A senior leader of the PPP said so far they had not finalized any strategy for the elections of key parliamentary offices.
PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari in the post-poll scenario.
The sources said that they were established between the PPP and the PML-N and the leaders of the two sides were expected to hold a meeting in a few days.
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